The Pope is Evil | Daniel Miessler
As George Bush hopefully taught us, it doesn’t matter if you think you’re doing good when you commit acts that suffering to millions of people.…
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The Problem With Selling Information Security as a “Business Enabler”
A random, innocent tweet by Gunnar Peterson (@oneraindrop) got me emoting about whether or not Information Security should be viewed/pitched as a business enabler. This…
The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communication
A friend recently forwarded me an email I sent to him in 2004. It was part of conversation about where messaging was going, e.g. texting…
The Real Reason Git is Great
This is the best argument I’ve come across for why git is special and worth your time. I’ve seen glimpses of this before, but I’ve…
Two Great Videos for Your Creationist Friends
This is one of the best refutations of the standard creationist arguments I’ve seen in a short video format. Combined with this one I think…
Character Encoding: Which Schemes Encode to Which Sizes?
The subject of character mapping and encoding is formidable, and many confuse the various schemes and standards available. As a reference, the list below gives…
Her Name is Susan | Daniel Miessler
I lack the words, but I don’t need them. I sometimes realize that I’m hesitant to talk about my love here, and tonight is one…
The VIA Model of Security Filtering Technologies
I inwardly smile when I hear the term “Unified Threat Management”. It means different things to different people, but to me it means consolidating the…
Misconceptions about Unicode and UTF-8/16/32
So everyone knows that UTF-8 encodes Unicode code points into eight bits, and UTF-16 encodes Unicode code points into 16 bits (or, two bytes), right?…
Some Thoughts on the Economic Viability of E-Books
A friend of mine (I’ll identify him if he so desires) sent me the following email: I think this is an excellent observation. My first…
Technology Pseudocode: Keeping Your Technology Problems Abstracted
The über-tech-geek culture has a problem with tool obsession. Twitter, Friendfeed, Google Reader–these are all basics, but each of these have multiple competitors that the…
The Pubsubhubub Protocol | Daniel Miessler
This is an exciting protocol. I want to use it to get my various services’ content into Friendfeed, and to Google Feedburner, and to my…